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Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, January 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-01-24)
The Business-Cycle Index increased by 0.8% from October to November 2021. The local unemployment rate decreased to 3.9% in November from 4.0% in October. Local nonfarm employment increased slightly by 0.4% in November and ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, December 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-12-15)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.3% from September 2022 to October 2022. The local unemployment rate remained the same at 3.1% in October 2022, October’s local nonfarm employment increased by 0.4% from September. ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, April 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-04-25)
The Business-Cycle increased 0.3% from January 2022 to February 2022. The local unemployment rate for February remained the same as in January at 3.7%. Local nonfarm employment in February decreased slightly from January ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, October 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-10-20)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.1% from July 2022 to August 2022. The local unemployment rate remained the same at 3.1% in August 2022. August’s local nonfarm employment decreased by 0.4% from July but was still ...
It is Time to Fix Social Security
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-12)
This year, the Social Security program is projected to run a cash flow deficit of $121 billion, one-fifth of the U.S. annual federal deficit, and is expected to be insolvent in 12 years. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, June 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-06-20)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 1.1% from March 2022 to April 2022. The local unemployment rate decreased to 3.3% in April 2022 from 3.4% in March 2022. Local nonfarm employment in April increased by 0.5% from March and ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, August 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-08-18)
The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.5% from May 2022 to June 2022. The local unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.2% in June 2022. Local nonfarm employment in June increased by 1% from May and was 2.95% higher than ...
Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility With a Safety-First Component
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-05-10)
Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. Here, ...
College Station-Bryan Economy Presentation, Updated 4/7/2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-04-11)
The presentation includes information on: The January 2022 Business-Cycle Index and Business-Cycle for College Station-Bryan; College Station-Bryan unemployment rates dropped to 3.7% in February 2022 and was tied for the ...
Does the Elderly's Private Pension Ownership Intensify Aggregate Equity Demand? Empirical Evidence in the U.S.
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-07-05)
In this paper, the authors investigate how the old generation income structure affects aggregate equity purchases, using Flows of Funds Accounts and Survey of Consumer Finances. Results suggest that the risk aversion that ...